Abstract: A high shutter speed video camera has an objective lens and a CCD. The CCD is defined by a photosensor array for producing charge signals representing the image formed thereon by the lens, and a shift register for storing and moving the charge signals in a predetermined direction in response to drive pulses. A driver is provided for sequentially producing a first read pulse signal for effecting the transfer of the charge signals from the photosensor array to the shift register, high speed vertical drive pulses for moving the charge signals in the shift register at a high speed until all the charge signals are removed from the shift register, second read pulse signal for effecting the transfer of the charge signals from the photosensor array to the shift register, and normal speed vertical drive pulses for moving the charge signals in the shift register at a normal speed until the charge signals are removed from the shift register.

Abstract: A magnetic record/playback system of a rotating head type comprising switching device for switching the drive mode of a capstan motor to a low speed drive mode when the operation mode of the magnetic record/playback system is switched from a normal play mode to a still picture mode, level detecting device for producing a pulse in accordance with a period where a level of the envelope of a signal reproduced from the rotating head is below a predetermined level, signal supply for producing a logical product signal of the produced pulse and a head switching pulse of the rotating head, device for stopping the capstan being driven in the low speed drive mode in response to the logical product signal, and control device for controlling the detected level so that the width of the output pulse from the level detecting device is constant.

Abstract: A helical scanning rotary head type magnetic video recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing a video signal sequentially by a rotary head such that each field of the video signal follows a record locus which is oblique to the length of a magnetic tape is disclosed, in which when the apparatus is switched from a normal playback mode to a still image playback mode, a capstan is switched to a low speed drive mode and a lowest level point of an envelope of a reproduced output of the rotary head is detected and the capstan is stopped when the detected point lies at a rotary head switching point.